How to find it? Simple. Destroy time—or rather, ordinary time, the “chronos” we all live in. “Kairos,” the “appointed time outside of time—the connection between time and eternity,” provides a doorway between the eternal world and the fallen one. These terms, borrowed from Ancient Greece by way of Orthodox Christianity, gave Spar’s writings a mystical force that belied their insubstantial character. Spar never explained how kairos could be found or made, preferring woolly mysticism and sentences as complex as they were meaningless.
Spar was neither charismatic nor publicity-minded. “I refuse to prostitute my words before that wicked harlot, the press,” he wrote in a letter to his wife. “I should rather die than let this tender creature uncoil itself where the world can squash it underfoot
